Michel Vimal du Monteil

Michel was born in provincial France in 1955, in a military family. He left home as a teenager to pursue business administration studies. Rugby and boxing kept him sane during his university years. Yachting was also an important part of his life; whenever time permitted he embarked on sailing adventures around Europe and North Africa.

In 1979, Michel arrived in Sydney on a 16-month assignment with the French Australian Chamber of Commerce. Australia became his home from then on. In the ensuing years, he had a stint running a windsurfing and sailing school on Hayman Island in the Whitsundays; he worked at SBS TV in its early days; he was a voice-over artist, a trade consultant, a translator, a conference interpreter in Sydney and in the Asia Pacific region… In 1988, by fluke, he embarked on an investment banking career in Sydney, from which he retired in 2011.

In 2013, Michel and his wife Annemieke settled in their new home at beautiful Emerald Beach, on the NSW Coffs Coast. Other than writing, Michel enjoys playing music with friends at open mic pub sessions and pursuing a number of sporting endeavours (surfing, golf, cycling, swimming). Whenever time permits, Michel and Annemieke are keen travellers – domestically on motorbikes or in their 4WD, and internationally to catch up with friends and family, revisit old tramping grounds and discover new ones.

Follow Michel:

When a jaded Sydney investment banker is blamed for the failure of a gold mine on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, a tsunami of lies and deception is triggered. Cloaked in secrecy, his plans to regain control get out of hand. With murders in a flooded Australian town, a vendetta in the Sumatran jungle, drama on the high seas, no one is to be trusted and no one is safe… not even family.

Where To Now is available through Hawkeye Publishing, Woodslane, your favourite bookshops, libraries and ebook platforms.

ISBN: 9781923105539

Where To Now was published 20 October 2025 by Hawkeye Publishing, Brisbane.

Where There Is a Will is available through Hawkeye Publishing, Kindle and Amazon, Booktopia, The Book Warehouse, your favourite bookshop and libraries; large print from Ulverscroft, audiobook from Ulverscroft and Audible.

A massive cyclone swell on Sydney’s beaches claims a big wave surfer, leaving his long-term partner without a body to mourn. His four adult godchildren from far and wide gather for the reading of his will. A mystery girl from Tasmania joins them.

Down the coast, a man is pulled from the water and abandoned to his fate with a head injury and amnesia. He sets out on an odyssey along the east coast of Australia in search of his identity.

Will he like what he finds?

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0645084441

Where There is a Will was published on 17th September 2021 by Hawkeye Publishing.

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